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Post by klawrencio79 on Mar 4, 2019 20:35:36 GMT
Haven't a lot of people ran a four minute mile? The barrier was broke a long time ago. Me, I stand a better chance of picking the NCAA tournament 100% correct (I can't run at all, a four hour mile, maybe), but I would believe the record has been trimmed since Roger Bannister. I knew a man who climbed Everest and a lot of other big mountains. He told me there are many high peaks in the Himalayas that make Everest look like a Sunday stroll Everest is the highest, but it's far from the most dangerous, which isn't to say it is without peril. K2 and Annapurna, both in the same range, are not as tall but are vastly more dangerous, averaging about 29 deaths per 100 ascents, and 34 - 100, respectively. Everest comes in around 6/7 per 100 ascents (with some infamous years of course, like the Rob Hall year where a huge storm wiped out entire teams of people). Of course, these are estimates, true counts are nearly impossible. One of my dream trips is to visit Everest base camp just to set my gaze upon the mountain. I could never ascend, obviously, as I don't have decades of mountaineering experience or tens of thousands of dollars in disposable income.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 4, 2019 20:50:18 GMT
Haven't a lot of people ran a four minute mile? The barrier was broke a long time ago. Me, I stand a better chance of picking the NCAA tournament 100% correct (I can't run at all, a four hour mile, maybe), but I would believe the record has been trimmed since Roger Bannister. I knew a man who climbed Everest and a lot of other big mountains. He told me there are many high peaks in the Himalayas that make Everest look like a Sunday stroll Everest is the highest, but it's far from the most dangerous, which isn't to say it is without peril. K2 and Annapurna, both in the same range, are not as tall but are vastly more dangerous, averaging about 29 deaths per 100 ascents, and 34 - 100, respectively. Everest comes in around 6/7 per 100 ascents (with some infamous years of course, like the Rob Hall year where a huge storm wiped out entire teams of people). Of course, these are estimates, true counts are nearly impossible. One of my dream trips is to visit Everest base camp just to set my gaze upon the mountain. I could never ascend, obviously, as I don't have decades of mountaineering experience or tens of thousands of dollars in disposable income. The guy I knew climbed three of the "Eight Thousands" and McKinley and the Matterhorn and a few others. He went to K2 and wanted no part of it. Everest was the last one he climbed and he quit mountaineering after. He was utterly disgusted my the shape of the mountain. He told me it looks like a garbage dump in a 3rd world shithole. Trash everywhere, empty oxygen tanks, discarded tents, clothing, food cans and wrappers, and piles and piles of frozen human shit. One thing he did find was a pile of used condoms. Suppose it a way to stay warm...
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Post by bluerisk on Mar 4, 2019 20:54:47 GMT
Some sort of ultra-terror IronMen: Triple Deca Ultratriathlon Swimming: 114 km (71 mi) => Strait of Dover are around 33.3 km or 20.7 mi Cycling: 5,400 km (3,400 mi) => 4501km or 2,797mi from New York (East coast) to California (West Coast) Running: 1,260 km (780 mi) => see above
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Post by klawrencio79 on Mar 4, 2019 21:03:33 GMT
Everest is the highest, but it's far from the most dangerous, which isn't to say it is without peril. K2 and Annapurna, both in the same range, are not as tall but are vastly more dangerous, averaging about 29 deaths per 100 ascents, and 34 - 100, respectively. Everest comes in around 6/7 per 100 ascents (with some infamous years of course, like the Rob Hall year where a huge storm wiped out entire teams of people). Of course, these are estimates, true counts are nearly impossible. One of my dream trips is to visit Everest base camp just to set my gaze upon the mountain. I could never ascend, obviously, as I don't have decades of mountaineering experience or tens of thousands of dollars in disposable income. The guy I knew climbed three of the "Eight Thousands" and McKinley and the Matterhorn and a few others. He went to K2 and wanted no part of it. Everest was the last one he climbed and he quit mountaineering after. He was utterly disgusted my the shape of the mountain. He told me it looks like a garbage dump in a 3rd world shithole. Trash everywhere, empty oxygen tanks, discarded tents, clothing, food cans and wrappers, and piles and piles of frozen human shit. One thing he did find was a pile of used condoms. Suppose it a way to stay warm...
Yup, thousands go every year and (not using this as an excuse) there are limited facilities and amenities so shit just gets tossed around everywhere. Even at the summit, there is trash and discarded oxygen bottles all over the place. Just goes to show you, there is nothing so sacred that human beings can't destroy. When I go to the beach, I go apeshit when I see people (almost always teenagers) who just throw their garbage bags onto the sand. Besides the fact that it's remarkably disrespectful and bad for the planet, there are at least 10 garbage cans within sight and one situated next to every exit of the beach. Fuck those people.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Mar 4, 2019 21:07:33 GMT
I’ve seen different odds of picking a perfect NCAA bracket listed. One person says that the odds are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. The problem with this is that it assumes all teams have an exactly equal chance of winning. Helen Keller U has a 50 50 shot at beating Duke. So that is just going by pure math.
Another person tries to take some of this into account and says the odds are more like 1 in 2.4 trillion. A 16 has defeated a 1 exactly once in tournament history, for example.
Still another says it’s 1 in 128 billion.
So when the OP asks what is the hardest, it’s obviously this. Some of the possibilities are more like “what is the most physically challenging” or something like that.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 4, 2019 21:40:59 GMT
Ted Williams said that the hardest thing in sports is to hit a pitched baseball. I think there were a couple hit balls last year alone. Maybe 8 hits from both the AL & NL combined!
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Post by weststigersbob on Mar 5, 2019 0:08:38 GMT
Taking all 10 in a test innings. Has happened twice in 142 years. Closely followed by tying a Test Match. Again, twice in 142 years.
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Post by weststigersbob on Mar 5, 2019 1:31:25 GMT
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Mar 5, 2019 11:29:49 GMT
Ted Williams was wrong. Cut and dried: that's it. In a sport where you can get into the HOF by failing 70% of the time I hardly think he was so wrong!
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Post by WullieFort on Mar 5, 2019 14:09:20 GMT
Pick your nose while boxing
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 5, 2019 23:08:34 GMT
Get a basehit in 56 consecutice games Major League baseball games.
I don't think it could happen now under the current rules of baseball.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 23:14:37 GMT
simply getting your bat on a ball off a pitcher during a major league game
i'm the king at the batting cages.
no why? every baseball shaped softball is coming right down the middle of the plate.
imagine standing 60 feet and 6 inches away from the mound and never knowing if a 98 mph fastball is coming or a change up, breaking ball, curveball, slider, etc.....and you have like a nanosecond to react and not only get a piece of it - but make a judgement of whether or not you should or shouldn't swing - and if you do swing - your trying to put the ball in play strategically sometimes - i.e. sac fly, bunt, opposite field to beat a shift.
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